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Re:New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potenti... by bigiain on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:58PM (#26032176)
Ahhh, right. I'd misinterpreted that "16 bit colour" as wanting 16 bits per colour 6 byte pixels, not 2 byte pixels.
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Re:New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potenti... by repsilat on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:12PM (#26032276)
I read it the same way. I guess the phrasing ("I would be willing") should have made it clear, but it's an understandable misunderstanding: it's used both ways:

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/16-bit/

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001557.htm

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Re:New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potenti... by davrosthedalek on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:08PM (#26032603)
Yeah, but even at 100 MByte/frame, we talk enormous bitrates for sensible frame rates.
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